Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia will no longer allow you to smile for your driver’s license picture. It seems that smiling throws off facial recognition technology used to detect fraudulent licenses. Residents in these states will have to display “neutral facial expressions.” So smiling heightens
The Wall Street Journal reports White House Set to Appoint a Pay Czar: The Obama administration plans to appoint a “Special Master for Compensation” to ensure that companies receiving federal bailout funds are abiding by executive-pay guidelines, according to people familiar with the matter. The
The Bonhoeffer post the other day provoked some fine, fine discussion on whether or not Roman 13 forbids all resistance to civil authority. The ideas expressed on both sides were thoughtful, showing genuine wrestling with a difficult issue. I wonder if we could factor into
Liberal mainline Protestants are shrinking in number, even though one would think that their moral permissiveness and leftwing political activism would make them fashionable again. So these denominations are turning to advertising: Shrinking mainline Protestant denominations are turning to marketing to help stem decades of
The only major American auto company not owned by the state–that would be Ford–is doing amazingly well: Ford continued to pinch business from its struggling crosstown rivals last month, increasing its share of the U.S. auto market to its highest percentage in three years. The
Why we shouldn’t send Guantanamo prisoners into American jails. From Michelle Malkin » The jihadi virus in our jails: After a year-long investigation launched by the Bush administration, the feds cracked down on a ring of murder-minded black Muslim jailhouse converts preparing to bomb two
I have been condemning the murder of abortionist George Tiller–who sometimes baptized infants before he finished them off–but this does not mean I accept the smarmy religiosity of those on the religious left who are <a href=" proclaiming him a saint and a martyr: Liberal
Michelle Malkin contrasts the media and governmental treatment of the anti-abortion murder and that jihadist murder of two army recruiters in Arkansas. (Oh, you hadn’t heard about that one?) When a right-wing Christian vigilante kills, millions of fingers pull the trigger. When a left-wing Muslim
In browsing through Uwe Siemon-Netto’s blog, I came across his review of a new biography of Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi S.S.: “There’s no doubt about Himmler’s anticommunism and anti-Semitism; he wiped out both groups mercilessly,” writes historian Peter Longerich, “but basically he
President Obama is courting Muslims during his middle eastern trip, including a major speech today in Egypt. He is emphasizing his middle name, “Hussein” (something that was deeply offensive during the campaign when Republicans did it), hailing his Muslim father (who was labeled an agnostic
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